The origin of cumulative culture in human evolution

人类积累知识，并利用积累的文化将其代代相传，确定这种独特能力的起源是考古学和人类进化研究的重要研究重点。该项目旨在通过实验来评估石器制造技术，发现累积文化的出现，石器制造技术在人类之间传播了330万年。预期的结果包括国际合作，提高我们对教学和学习的进化理解，并产生关于印度尼西亚和澳大利亚早期石器制品的新数据。这将为我们地区的人类进化和土著知识的合作研究和学术见解提供重大好处。

Humans accumulate knowledge and use cumulative culture to transfer it across generations, and identifying the origin of this unique ability is a significant research priority for the study of archaeology and human evolution. This project aims to discover the emergence of cumulative culture by using experiments to evaluate stone tool-making, a technology passed between humans for 3.3 million years. Expected outcomes include international collaborations that improve our evolutionary understanding of teaching and learning, and produce new data on early stone artefacts in Indonesia and Australia. This should provide significant benefits for collaborative research and scholarly insight into human evolution and Indigenous knowledge in our region.